Inches Away

We are inches away from finishing the kitchen cupboards. Peter read about using Rustoleum on the Retro Renovation Blog. So while we were in Belingham at the start of all this we got a kit. You have a choice of a "light" or a "dark" kit. We chose light because we wanted to match the light lemon yellow in the accent tile. I also didn't want to go all white for the cupboards for some reason.
By leaving the store we made two mistakes. 1st you have to get the kit tinted and also we should of gotten the bigger kit. We are having to get real creative here to stretch the amount that came with our kit. I had the brilliant idea to get it tinted at our Benjamin Moore where we've been getting all our paint. They were only too happy to oblige. Unfortunately they mistinted one of the quarts. So we got a quart of tinted primer and a quart of flat tinted to our chosen shade. So far it's working but we haven't put the final coat on yet. Hopefully tonight!

It seems that we will never get out from under the boxes. I am up against a lot of blocks, emotional ones about how much stuff we have. As a gift to myself I hired a professional to help me declutter and organize. We did a marathon 6 hour session. I'm still recovering but it really inspred me to keep going with this. We have two more sessions booked and I think I'll keep going till the whole house and garage are done. Jada calls herself the "Head Simplifyer" at Nitty Gritty. She also does home staging and I found her to have great ideas for lay out which is something I really struggle with. So far I have a good pile of stuff for my garage sale and then I will donate whatever is left over to Miscellany - Thrift Store which is in my hood and the proceeds go to women's programs.

Bedroom in progress

Ikea curtains that go really well with the livingroom rug etc

Kitchen mess

Nice light that came with the house

Out of the ashes comes a cute little vignette

Boxes everywhere

Boxes in the dinning nook

Kitchen in progress

Scored this from my favorite vintage store, not sure where it's gonna go

So in love with the lamp

Just need to get rid of the extra chain and cord

Peter hung the schoolhouse lamp

We'd thought we'd use this side table for her to use as an art table

Keaton's Room

Keaton's Room

Getting there.

I'm so tired I don't know what to write or if I do if I will make any sense. I'll just post some photos and update later.

We almost bought this house

We lost out to a Celebrity Yoga Instructor, this is what he did to it

Kitchen floor is in, waiting for baseboards

I think the mudroom is going to win most improved room in the house

Trying to hide Hoarking Spitting Man next door, not high enough but it does hide their ugly fence

Very important box

Redoing the Heating Vents. We're going to leave them natural.

The Blue Garden

Waiting for planting

Cleaning up the basement

What's Next?? Basement kitchen.

Clean up downstairs

Uphostery project and our Mod Chair. This is the bedroom downstairs, it will have new carpet and paint.

Where do I begin?

It's amazing how things pile up

The bathroom will be closed up, new floor and vanity, fresh paint and fixtures

Clean up, we still need to do the cupboards

Keaton's room

Bathroom

Our room

Livingroom

New fixture in the entry way

Heat register

We put one up in the hallway too

Remembering the torn linoleum and the paint splatters

Hallway redone with new floors trim and paint and lighting, waitng for the runner we ordered from Home Depot

Happiest in Chandleer Land

Today we went to Lighting Warehouse in Richmond. There were a lot of lights that would look good in your Surrey McMansion. There were some little gems and some were fantastical and some just don't go with our house. I saw quite a few that I imagined would go with our friend's West Van house. We hoped we would fine parts for our free track lighting we got off Craig's list but they didn't have any. I figured the track lighting should be white to blend in with the ceiling but that's as far as I can go. I'm not sure how to place the lighting in the kitchen, we need task lighting and I'm afraid it's starting to feel beyond me. I need some hand holding by someone who's done this before. The other thing is lighting is also really expensive, 110% markup Peter says from his days at a lighting and plumbing store so even though they were "wholesale prices" still outrageous.

Weird Star Trek lighting

Sparkly

Chandleers galore

Can I have this one?

Swarovski

I loved this one but not the price

AGH! Nipple Lights!

For my friend Scott's house